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CHARLES L. ARNOLD, OF WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

SLEEPING-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,563, dated July 23,1889.

Application filed October 17, 1888. Sen'al No. 288,354. (No modeL) I Toall whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. ARNOLD, of WVilmington, in the county ofNew Hanover and State of North Carolina, have invented a new andImproved Sleeping-Oar, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description. I

This invention relates to sleeping-cars, and has for its object toprovide a sleeping-car so constructed and arranged as to be readilyconverted from an ordinary passenger-car into a sleeping-car, and bymeans of which the greatest amount of room may be obtained and theutmost privacy secured.

The invention consists in a railway sleeping-car and in details thereof,constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of a railway passenger-carconstructed according to this invention and shown as arranged for dayuse. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the invention, showingthe car with berths arranged for sleeping. Fig. 3 is a verticallongitudinal section of a portion of the car with parts broken away, andFig. 4 is an end view of one of the seats as arranged for day use.

passage-way. Upon one side of the car thecar-seats 1 are mounted onplatforms 3, extending underneath said seat from the back of one seat tothe back of the seat in front and resting on rollers 4. The rollers 4are located and contained in grooves 5, extending in the car-floor 5 tothe seats 1 on the opposite side of the passage-way. Upon the end ofeach platform 3, adjacent to the wall of the car, is mounted a partition6, which rests against the wall of the car during the day and formsavertical partition lengthwise with the car, and extending over and pastone end of a seat to the back of the seat in front, when the seat ismoved away from the side of the car to form with the corresponding seaton the opposite side of the car the berths for the night. Each partition6 is provided with a door '7, closing an opening equal in width to thespace between two seats.

The partitions 6 and their doors 7 are formed with openings or windows8, which register with the car-windows 9. The windows 8 may have a fixedglass, as shown, ora sliding sash. The tops of the partitions G abutagainst a portion of the ceiling 10 of the car, which forms, with theroof of the car, a series of receptacles 11, in which bedding may bestored during the day. The receptacles 11 are closed by hinged doors 12,which swing down and are secured by bolts 13 when closed.

The backs 14 of the car-seats, with arms 15, which serve as braces whenthe backs are turned up to form upper berths, are secured to brackets15, which in the case of the movable seats 1 are pivoted to thepartitions 6, and in the case of the fixed seats 1 are pivoted to thewall of the car. The backs 14, when turned up, may be held in place bymeans of suitable catches or bolts 16 on the backs 14, engaging socketsin partition 6. The backs 14, when turned up, are also fastened by abolt 14' in one of the backs, which engages a socket 16' in the otherback.

When the berths are made up, the width of the seats 1,.forming the lowerberths, and the width of the backs 14, forming the upper berths, may beextended by means of an extension 17, hinged to the backs 14, and in theday-time hanging down against the back and serving as a shelf, and anextension 18, hinged to the seats 1 and having a foot-board 19, whichserves as a guard when the berth is made up. The extension 18 is held upby a curved notched bar 20, which projects through a plate 21 andengages plate 21 when extended, and is located under seat 1 when not inuse. The platforms 3, when rolled into position for making up theberths, are secured to the carfloor by bolts 41'.

The backs 14, when turned up to horizontal position, are supported bybars 20', located in sockets in the arms 15 and held in extendedposition by pins 21.

To cover up the openings between the seats at one side of and in thecenter of the car when arranged to form berths, rolling slat partitions22 and 23 are provided, the upper slat partition 22 being mounted on aspringroller 24, hung at one end'to the side of the car and at the otherin a bracket 22 on the top of the car, located beneath the centralelevated portion 25 of the car and beneath the receptacles 11 on oneside of the car, and the lower slat partitions 23, mounted onspring-rollers 24, located beneath the fixed and movable seats 1. Thelower slat partitions 23 pass over a guide-roller 26, mounted inbrackets 27, secured to seats 1, and are attached at their outer ends tothe lower end of backs 14. When the latter are turned up, as shown inFigs. 2 and 3, the lower slat partitions 23 are drawn up and close thespace between seats 1 and horizontal backs 14, as shown in Fig. 2. Theelevated portion 25 is covered transversely by a rolling slat partition25. The spaces between the unrolled slat partitions 23 are closed by thebars 20.

The upper slat partitions, when drawn down, are held in place by rings28 on their lower ends, which engage buttons or pins 29 on the lowerslat partitions 22 and close the space between horizontal backs 14 andthe top of the car at the center and one side, as shown in Fig. 2. 3ymeans of this arrangement a series of compartments are provided, eacheontainin g a lower and upper berth extendin g part-way across the car,the compartments closing the center passage-way and forming apassage-way at one side of the car. Access is had to the compartmentsfrom this side passage-way by means of doors '7, and the compartmentsare fully lighted by day from the windows 8 and 9 and at night by asuitable arrangement of safety-lamps located conveniently in movablepartitions. Suitable heating and ventilating apparatus and wash-standsmay be provided.

The advantages of a car arranged for day and night service, as hereinset forth, are apparent. A series of private compartments are provided,the unsightly upper berths in other constructions are dispensed with,and a better arrangement of space by day obtained. The pillows 30,mattresses 31, and other bedding may be readily stowed away in.receptacles 11, and the car readily converted into a day-ear orsleepingcar by means of the seats 1,'backs ll, movable platforms 3, withpartitions 6, and the rolling slat partitions 22 and 23, the latterrolling up out of the way by the action of their spring-rollers when theends of the slatted partitions are unfastened.

As the seats 1 are preferably not reversible, folding chairs facing theseats may be secured to platforms 3 for use when the compartments aremade up and to be closed up or used during the day to accommodatepassengers when the train is running in the opposite direction from thatwhich the fixed seats face.

The compartments may be lighted by a lamp so located in the partitions Uas to light the car before the compartments are made up and to light theside passage as well as the Having thus described my invention, I claimas new and desire to secure byLet-ters Patent '1. A railwaypassenger-car having seats movable away from the side of the car to theopposite seats, with partitions extending lengthwise of the car, andtransverse folding partitions forming with the laterally-movablelengthwise partitions compartments, and a side passage-way extendinglengthwise of the car, substantially as described.

2. A railway passengercar having seats movable away from the. side ofthe car to the opposite seats, the seats having swinging backs withmeans for fastening the swinging backs in an elevated horizontalposition above the seats, partitions extending lengthwise of the car,and transverse folding partitions forming with the laterally-movablelengthwise partitions compartments, and a side passage-way extendinglengthwise of the ear, substantially as described.

A railway passenger-car having seats movable away from the side of thecar to the opposite seats, the seats having swinging backs, with meansfor fastening the swinging backs in an elevated position above theseats, compartments for holding bedding located above the ceiling at thesides of the car above the seats, partitions extending lengthwise of thecar, and transverse folding partitions forming with thelaterally-movable lengthwise partitions compartments, and a sidepassage-way extending lengthwise of the car, substantially as described.

4. A railway passenger-car having seats movable endwise across thecenter aisle of the car to abut end to end with the seats on theopposite side of the car and form a pas sage-way on one side of the ear,the abutting seats being convertible into sleeping-berths, substantiallyas shown and described.

5. A railway passengencar having seats mounted on platforms movable fromthe side of the car to the opposite seats and frictionrollers located inthe floor of the car upon which the platforms rest and over which theymove, substantially as described.

(3. A railway passenger-ear having a series of seats 1, the seats 1 011one side of the car being mounted on platforms 3, provided at the endadj aeentto the car-wall with a lengthwise partition 6, having door 7and windows 8, a series of transverse grooves 5 in the floor of the car,with rollers 4 extending from the side of the ear to the opposite seats,the platforms 3, resting upon and movable over the rollers 45, a seriesof compartments 11, with hinged doors 12, located in the ceilings 10 atthe sides of the car above the seats, the top of the partitions 6abutting against the ceilings 10, and a series of 'upp er and lowerroll- IOO ITO

ing slat partitions 22, 23, and 25, mounted on spring-rollers 24,located in and beneath the central elevated portion 25 of the car, and

the ceiling at one side of the car and beneath the seats 1, the outerends of the lower slat partitions 23 being fastened to the seats 1, andthe outer ends of the upper slat partitions having detachable fasteningdevices for securing them to partitions 22, substantially as described.

'7. A railway passenger-car having a series of seats 1,the seats 1 atone side of the car havingvertical partitions on their inner ends andbeing movable with the partitions across the car to the opposite seats,the seats 1 having backs 14, mounted on brackets ,pivoted to one side ofthe car, and partition 6, with fastening devices for holding thebacks 14in hori zontal position, and movable partitions extending crosswise ofthe carbetween the seats, substantially as described.

8. .A railway passenger-car having seats movable from one side of thecar to the seats opposite seats, and havingvertical partitions 6,extending over their inner ends and movable therewith across the car toform a side passage-Way, the seats 1, having backs 14,

'mounted on brackets 15, pivoted to the partitions 6 and a Wall of thecar, with fastening devices for holding the backs 14 in a horizontalposition, a folding extension 17, hinged to the edge of the backs 14,and an extension 18, hinged to the front edge of the seats 1, and havinga foot-rest and guard 19, with a curved notched supporting-bar 20,projecting through a plate 21 on the floor beneath the seats,substantially as described.

1Q. A railway passenger-car having seats movable from one side of thecar to the opposite seats, and the extensible transverse upper and lowerslat partitions 22 and 23, mounted on spring-rollers 24 in the verticalelevated portion 25 of the car beneath the ceiling 10 at one side of thecar and beneath the seats 1, the slat partitions being adapted to extendin a vertical plane transverse to the car from the top of the car to thefloor, thereby dividing the pairs of seats moved end to end intocompartments, substantially as described.

CHARLES L. ARNOLD.

Vitnesses:

LOUIS J. PIRSSON, SHEP. S. AVERITT.

